Peter Henry Emerson
1888
Advert for "Pictures from Life in Field and Fen". By Dr. P. H. Emerson

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Advert in "A History of Photography: Written as a Practical Guide and an Introduction to its Latest Developments" by W. Jerome Harrison (Bradford: Percy Lund & Co., The Country Press - London: Trubner & Co, 1888), p.xix.
 
Pictures from Life in Field and Fen. By Dr. P. H. Emerson. Being 20 plates in photogravure, reproduced from Dr. Emerson's plates by Messrs. Dawson & Co., Goupil & Co., and the Autotype Co., together with an Introductory Essay, in handsome portfolio.
 
Edition de luxe on India paper, limited to 50 numbered copies, é5 5 0.
Ordinary edition, on fine plate paper, limited to 550 copies é3 8 0.
 
''His composition reminds us more of paintings than of any mechanical reproductions of Nature." Spectator.
"No painter could have produced anything more charmingly true to Nature." Scotsman.
"Dr. Emerson evidently intends to form a school in photography, and has resolved to show photography at its best." Photographic News.
 
LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SON, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
 
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